The miserable weather on Sunday gave Tim a chance to finalise the results from the last 2 events:
And it gave John the chance to sort out the league after 4 events too:
NYMBO League 4 events (PDF)
UPDATED RESULTS AND REPORT (10-Jul)
Thanks to all the riders who came along to our July event at Dallowgill
updated results Dallowgill results rev2 table here, and you can check out the MapRun routes for every rider here
Dallowgill planner’s comments
In the early 20th century Leeds Corporation had a plan to build a reservoir in the steep sided valley of South Gill Beck [immediately south of the event centre]; fortunately this never came to fruition or the Dallowgill bike O may have looked different!
We were grateful to the Delta Trust Academy for the excellent facilities at the outdoor education centre, originally built as Dallowgill School and to Lottie’s Catering – normally found at Hell Wath football field, Ripon. If you did not take up the £2.50 voucher available to all riders you missed a treat!
A geek at the map before the event would have identified the possibility of the W loop into Nidderdale with a teaser of will it go into the Ashfold Side mining valley? [No controls there this time]. Once into Nidderdale the BW E of Gouthwaite reservoir would have to be completed. All but 3 riders who took this option sensibly went down the BW into Bouthwaite & up the tarmac N & E of Pateley Bridge. Apologies for those who took the clockwise route for not indicating on the map the severity of the drainage channels across the steep road down NW from #18. Those who went across the moors were rewarded with fantastic views in all directions thanks to the weather forecast being much better that indicated. Commiserations to Dave Goulding who lost his map somewhere near #16 & had to use googlemaps to find his way back to the finish, which he managed with seconds to spare.
The route through the fields from #5 to #20 was grassy & gated, the wise riders avoided #5 & just dipped in & out from the road to #20.There were enough controls E of the start to make decisions tricky on what to leave out & what order to choose. I made a late map correction to the BW E of #13 based on info received about height of vegetation but then some kind person slashed it down before our event so all was well.
Overall winner with 487 was M40 Mark Chryssanthou, 2nd was M50 Peter Pawlik on 436 only just ahead of M60 Tony Brand Barker on 434. Angela BB was 1st lady with 403 ahead of Claire Riley in the MIX50 class on 398, Jemima Parker & Jo Anderson W50 next on 285. Only 1 GEN team, Michael & Daisy scored 346 but could not stay as Daisy had to go to work [it’s a hard life!] Unusually there was an Ebike tie – Keith Foster & Stephen Morriss [the latter treating his wife to a birthday weekend away in the campervan, no expense spared] scored 395. Based on points/km the most cunning rider was Steve Willis who achieved 9.5, ladies category had Angela at 8.67 & Jemima at 8.66; look & learn from their routes.
David Day
There is still time to enter online for this Saturday’s event at Dallowgill – enter here
The MapRun course is now ready – you can use the QR code or find it manually by choosing:
Select event | UK | North Yorkshire | NYMBO | Summer 2024 | Dallowgill controls
Start & Finish locations below; full course map in the previous post
Car park is opposite the hostel on hardstanding & grass, please leave track through to access the finish; start is opposite church nearby.
Registration – 9.15 – 10.15 Starts – 9.30 – 10.30
Just under two weeks until the next NYMBO event at Dallowgill, planned by David Day and using a new event centre.
Online entry for 6th July (closes Thursday July 4th)
You’ll get 25% off if you’ve entered by 1st July, and every entry will get a free food voucher to use at the onsite caterer that David has organised.
Event centre: Dallowgill Outdoor Centre, HG4 3RB; (Grid ref: 196719 near Knott Farm)
it’s a posh hostel mostly used for schools during the week so we have sole use on the day of the event. Car parking is on hardstanding adjacent to the centre, please park tidily; registration & toilets are inside the building, a caterer will be attending after finishing [bacon sandwiches & cake items] – please bring cash if you wish to partake.
The area is a good mixture of land rover tracks across the moors with fine views if you have the time to look, a myriad of minor roads, some tricky BWs including a deep ford with a cobbly bottom for bravehearts [marked on the map] & an opportunity to hone those hill climbing muscles!
Mobile signal is poor at the centre so the landline number will be on the map for emergencies, however there is wifi in the building. Make sure that you download the MapRun course before arrival, please ask for guidance if you have not used MapRun before.
The NYMBO League after 2 events is here – NYMBO League 24 after 2 events – we’ll have an update including Kildale shortly (thanks John Dixon for sorting this out).
The BMBO National Championship weekend is on the 22/23 June is the Hope Valley, details of that are on the BMBO website
Our next NYMBO event is on 6 July – we have a new venue for this Nidderdale event – Dallowgill Outdoor Centre, HG4 3RB; it’s a posh hostel mostly used for schools during the week so we have sole use on the day of the event. Car parking is on hardstanding adjacent to the centre, please park tidily; registration & toilets are inside the building, a caterer will be attending after finishing [bacon sandwiches & cake items] – please bring cash if you wish to partake.
The area is a good mixture of land rover tracks across the moors with fine views if you have the time to look, a myriad of minor roads, some tricky BWs including a deep ford with a cobbly bottom for bravehearts [marked on the map] & an opportunity to hone those hill climbing muscles!
Mobile signal is poor at the centre so the landline number will be on the map for emergencies, however there is wifi in the building. Make sure that you download the MapRun course before arrival, please ask for guidance if you have not used MapRun before.
The August Bank Holiday Monday event is likely to be at Terrington in the Howardian Hills (following the cancellation of the Ebor White Rose weekend) – details to be confirmed soon.
And finally, a quick note on our September weekend of events on 14/15 September. If you would like to camp at that event so you can easily ride in both events, then there’s no need to book in advance – we’ll just get a note of people who want to camp when we get entires and submit them to the campsite in one go.
Provisional results here (Tim is sorting out the riders with MapRun issues and the final results will be ready in the next couple of days)
Thank you for riding yesterday and for the comments Jill and I received. We tend to plan 3 hour events but this time, for some unknown reason, I thought it would be a good idea to use the single track over Hograh Moor and so opening up a larger event area.
As for all planners, the aim is to get the lead riders to just scrape through in the time allowance and having to go for a completely isolated 5 pointer to clear up Tom G managed to clear up in 3 hours 59 and had to go for the nasty #3 (5 pointer) up the track from Battersby road bend. Well done.
We’re glad that there were some high scorers and everyone seemed to enjoy the tracks both north and south of Kildale.
We enjoyed planning the route and the tracks were dry during the planning stage (honest !). We’ve had a deluge over the last couple of weeks making the riding pretty tricky in places.
A big thank you to Tony Thonley for preparing the map. I’m sure you agree that it was excellent quality. Finally, a big thank you to Tim for his support and for sorting out MapRun.
Hope to see you soon. Nidderdale next. (enter online here)
Jill and Conrad Ellison
A few hours left for online entry
MapRun download is now ready, use the QR code below or select event manually in the app. Please download before you leave home for the event.
Start & finish locations are shown in the photo, and parking is on a the verges near the Village Hall.
There a 25% discount on your entry for our next event if you enter before 27th May – you can enter online here.
Conrad has been working hard to plan the Kildale event on Saturday 1st June – there will be some more event details available in the next few days. At the time of writing (Wednesday) it’s absolutely chucking it down, so lets hope the tracks have dried out a bit in ten days time!
Date – Saturday 1st June
Venue – Kildale Village Hall
Duration – 4 hours
registration – 0915 – 1015| start – 0930 – 1030
The blank course map is ready for you to see the area you’ll be riding. Click on the image for the fullsize version (please put any comments below if you feel the resolution isn’t high enough and I can post a bigger file version).
1st June Kildale
The finalised results for Suttton Bank can be found here, and the control map is below. Congratulations to the riders who cleared the course!
Next event is at Kildale on 1st june, and online entry is now open (25% discount for early entry)
At Sutton Bank, we did get some feedback from the owner of the stables at Fox Folly – just north of control 30. He spoke to at least one rider as he was concerned about the number of bikes going through with the horseriding in progress. Feedback from the horseriders suggests all our riders to appropriate action around the horses (which is good) and we’ve agreed to make sure to let them know the next time we’re in the area.
Sutton Bank Control
Glorious weather and (mostly) dry tracks made for an excellent event at Sutton Bank yesterday. Thank to John Dixon for his planning and organising efforts – his comments below.
Provisional MapRun results are here. A couple of riders experienced some phone issues, and Tim thinks those are all resolved but please get in touch if you spot any scoring issues.
Final results will be published in the next couple of days.
Recent sunshine had dried out the tracks considerably since I test rode them a few weeks ago. More sun today tempted over 50 riders to turn out, some for the first time. Hopefully they enjoyed themselves and will try further events.
As usual, a few riders, who shall remain nameless, cleaned up or came very close to it. The rest seemed to have taken a variety of routes but for most it was an uphill finish. Despite that, there were positive remarks about the area, especially to the west, which was new to quite a few of the riders. Thanks to the Park Authority and the Bike Shop for their support
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